/prog/ - Lisp is shit and Sussman is a fag

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-02 5:16

Not used to Sussman's lecturing style - is it called "teaching by example"? - I found him very tiring to listen to; he spoke very fast but told very little, since he used most of his words to go in detail through a number of almost identical examples
One of the oldest examples is presented by the LISP 1.5 Manual: halfway their description of the programming language LISP, its authors give up and from then onwards try to complement their incomplete language definition by an equally incomplete sketch of a specific implementation. Needless to say, I have not been able to learn LISP from that booklet!

http://kazimirmajorinc.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-dijkstra-blogged-about-lisp.html

Name: Anonymous 2012-05-07 14:52

C, recursive:



int factorial(int i){

    if(i < 2)

        return 1;

    return factorial(i - 1) * i;

}

C, iterative:



int factorial(int i){

    if(i < 2)

        return 1;

    int j;

    int l = 1;

    for(j = 2; j < i; ++j)

        l *= j;

    return l * i;

}

Lisp:



(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks(cocks()))))))))))))))

Lisp is shit and Sussman is a fag

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